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GM to source medium-duty trucks from Isuzu

Quote :: General Motors will re-enter the U.S. medium-duty truck market next year with Chevrolet-branded vehicles supplied by Isuzu Motors Ltd., people familiar with the matter said today.

The companies are due to make an announcement soon, the people said, declining to be identified because the information is not yet public.

The deal was reported by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday.

The long-time partners have in the past jointly developed trucks such as the Chevy Colorado pickup, sold as the i-Series by Isuzu.

GM sold its stake in Isuzu in 2006 after a 35-year capital alliance as it faced financial difficulties, and later announced its exit from the medium-duty truck market when its problems escalated and it filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

It was not immediately clear how many vehicles Isuzu would supply under the original equipment manufacturing deal.

Of the total, 80 percent would be powered by diesel engines and be shipped from Japan. The rest will be assembled at a plant operated by an Isuzu partner in the U.S. with gasoline engines supplied by GM, the sources said.

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Confirmed: Isuzu N-Series Will Be Sold by Chevrolet in U.S.

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Quote :: Chevrolet just announced it will be getting back into the medium-duty commercial truck segment with the addition of six new work trucks. To make this happen in a cost-efficient way, Chevy is partnering with Isuzu, which makes the N-Series low-cab-forward platforms.

Previously GM offered the Chevrolet Kodiak and GMC TopKick, but after troubled negotiations with potential buyers, GM wound down their production in Flint, Mich., in 2009, walking away from the 4500 and 5500 commercial truck segment altogether.

The new Chevy models will be the 3500, 3500 Heavy Duty, 4500, 4500 HD, 5500 and 5500 HD. The new Chevy LCF chassis cabs will be offered in both regular-cab (two-door) and crew-cab (four- door) versions, with three different engine choices: a 6.0-liter V-8 gas, a 3.0-liter V-6 turbo-diesel and 5.2-liter V-8 turbo-diesel.

In addition to the new LCF trucks, Chevrolet's fleet and commercial choices include the Silverado 2500HD and 3500HD, full-size chassis-cab models and the midsize Colorado, which offers a box-delete option, as well as the compact City Express and full-size Express vans.